Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

That is exactly what we are planning on giving you. Putting the House into suspension for nine weeks when there is unfinished business and business that is being finished too quickly is not the way to do it. When the House reconvened in September of last year it was to debate the Government's approach to the banking system. That is not finished business. We still do not have the NAMA legislation and we should not adjourn the House until we have the NAMA legislation and have an opportunity of discussing it. When we came back last September the Government suddenly discovered that there was an economic problem and decided to bring forward the budget to October and in that budget announced it would examine public expenditure. It has now got the report on that. We should not adjourn until that report is published and we have had an opportunity to discuss it.

The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Ahern, is so anxious-----

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